Fall
- Aspero Medical, a medical device startup founded by Professor Mark Rentschler, received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop the company’s endoscopic balloon overtube for gastrointestinal and endoscopy procedures.
- Liana Kerr-Layton is a junior in Biomedical Engineering Program who has dedicated her time to building and supporting CU Boulder's inclusive culture.
- Rentschler received the honor recognizing his thought-leadership and discovery on Monday, Nov. 1.
- Several new faculty hires in CU Engineering have a deep interest in bio-inspired engineering.
- The Materials Instrumentation and Multimodal Imaging Core (MIMIC) and the Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) facility will host a joint virtual webinar from noon to 2 p.m. on Nov. 18 via Zoom.
- Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Kayla Sprenger is among the faculty studying what should be done with unusable, discarded plastic waste that can harm the environment.
- Day one of the LVC competition will feature bioscience research and technology, including work from biomedical engineering professors Nick Bottenus and Corey Neu.
- After a year when the nation experienced a shortage of mechanical ventilators to help treat patients with severe COVID-19 complications, Professor Mark Borden's company Respirogen presents another treatment option: oxygen microbubbles.
- Professors Sarah Calve and Virginia Ferguson's tissue engineering project is one of three space-based experiments that recently received a NSF grant to help patients on Earth.
- Laurel Hind, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is studying the innate immune response to infection using engineered models.